Adventure

Adventure fiction is a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, forms the main storyline. Adventure novels and short stories were popular subjects for American pulp magazines, which dominated American popular fiction between the Progressive Era and the 1950s. Adventure fiction often overlaps with other genres, notably war novels, crime novels, sea stories, Robinsonades, spy stories (as in the works of John Buchan, Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming), science fiction, fantasy, (Robert E. Howard and J.R.R. Tolkien both combined the secondary wo ...more

Amber & Dusk
Firefly: Big Damn Hero
The Storyteller (Sea of Ink and Gold, #3)
Umbertouched (Rosemarked, #2)
Jack Frost: The End Becomes the Beginning (The Guardians, #5)
Swordheart
Pirate's Passion (Sentinels of Savannah, #2)
Captain's Log: Snowbound
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)
An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason
West (East, #2)
Knights vs. Dinosaurs
The Darkdeep (The Darkdeep, #1)
Where She Fell
The Three Secret Cities (Jack West Jr #5)
Past Tense (Jack Reacher, #23)
The Great Alone
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
Artemis
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6)
Storm Glass (Harbinger #1)
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
Sea of Greed (NUMA Files, #16)
Dry
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEndurance by Alfred LansingInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best True Survival Stories
382 books — 457 voters
Secrets of the Realm by Bev StoutLost In Time by Bridgitte LesleyDark Demands by Nell HendersonIt Lives in The Basement by Sahara FoleyDreams Come True by Bridgitte Lesley
Indie/Self-Published Books
2,707 books — 1,764 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Foreign Lands
1,885 books — 2,298 voters

Old Man's War by John ScalziDune by Frank HerbertStarship Troopers by Robert A. HeinleinLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyPandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
Excellent Space Opera
452 books — 2,648 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Books That Have Made An Impression
958 books — 754 voters

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hobbit
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Treasure Island
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

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Drew Barrymore
“ If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. ”
― Drew Barrymore

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“ I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side. ”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

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